From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 27 14:37:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA02000 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA01994 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:37:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA10525 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:37:30 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id WAA02921; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:22:37 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199710272122.WAA02921@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Recovering Lost Inode? To: james@reef.com (James Buszard-Welcher) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:22:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3454F51C.C37E37EB@reef.com> from "James Buszard-Welcher" at Oct 27, 97 02:10:04 pm X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As James Buszard-Welcher wrote... > Sorry, not a FreeBSD *specific* question, but it could be... > I'm not sure what would be the appropriate group. I'm sure that > if someone know this, it is someone on this list. > > I had a daemon writing to a file... I then rm-ed the file, but the > daemon still had the filehandle and was writing to it. > > Well... I killed the daemon, which had been writing to this invisible > inode. > > Is there ANY way (fsdb, fsck, some great perl hack) to find out what > this inode was and link it back into some directory so I can get at > the file contents? wild guess: fsck ? _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ------------------ Support your local daemons: run FreeBSD Unix -----Yoda